Inge Donnepp
Inge Donnepp (née Schnepper; * December 13, 1918 in Unna ; † July 31, 2002 in Recklinghausen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).
Life
Inge Donnepp was born as the daughter of a lawyer and notary. After attending elementary school and graduating from high school in 1937, she first studied modern philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where she passed the exam as an interpreter in English and French . She then began studying law at the universities in Rostock and Berlin , completing the first state examination in 1942 and, after her legal clerkship, the second state examination in 1947. She worked from 1947 to 1954 as an attorney's assistant, was admitted to the bar and practiced as a specialist lawyer for tax law in a law firm in Marl . She then worked as a social judge in Münster and Gelsenkirchen for a good twenty years .
Donnepp joined the SPD in 1957 and was active in the extra-parliamentary campaign “ Fight against nuclear death ” in the late 1950s . From 1973 she was state chairwoman of the working group of social democratic women in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1979 she was elected to the SPD party executive. She was also a member of the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union .
In the state elections in 1975 and 1980 , Donnepp was elected via the state list as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, to which she was a member until 1985. On June 4, 1975, she was appointed Minister for Federal Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Heinz Kühn . In December 1975 she also became the state commissioner for women. Since 1977 she has been a member of the United Nations Women's Rights Commission .
After Finance Minister Friedrich Halstenberg resigned on February 9, 1978, Donnepp moved to the head of the Ministry of Justice after Diether Posser had been appointed Finance Minister . This made her the first woman Minister of Justice in a German state. She exercised this function, also under Prime Minister Johannes Rau , until her 65th birthday and her associated retirement on December 14, 1983. Dieter Haak was appointed her successor in office .
Because of her political commitment, she was also called "Mother Courage of the Ruhr Area" in the SPD.
Inge Donnepp had been married to the teacher Bert Donnepp since 1943 and had two sons. On July 31, 2002, she died of cancer.
Honors
- 1996: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Inge-Donnepp-Strasse in Unna
- Inge-Donnepp-Weg in Lünen
See also
literature
- Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1984 from July 16, 1984
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry for [Inge Schnepper's matriculation ] in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
Eduard Kremer (1946) | Artur Sträter (1946–1947, 1948–1950, 1962–1966) | Gustav Heinemann (1947–1948) | Rudolf Amelunxen (1950–1958) | Otto Flehinghaus (1958–1962) | Franz Meyers (1966) | Friedrich Vogel (1966) | Josef Neuberger (1966–1972) | Diether Posser (1972-1978) | Inge Donnepp (1978–1983) | Dieter Haak (1983–1985) | Rolf Krumsiek (1985–1995) | Fritz Behrens (1995–1999) | Reinhard Rauball (1999) | Jochen Dieckmann (1999–2002) | Wolfgang Gerhards (2002–2005) | Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter (2005–2010) | Thomas Kutschaty (2010–2017) | Peter Biesenbach (since 2017)
Carl Spiecker (1948–1953) | Karl Arnold (1954) | Artur Sträter (1954–1956, 1960–1962)) | Karl Siemsen (1956–1958) | Franz Meyers (1958–1959) | Johann Ernst (1959–1960) | Gerd Ludwig Lemmer (1962–1966) | Fritz Kaßmann (1966–1967) | Diether Posser (1968–1972) | Friedrich Halstenberg (1972–1975) | Inge Donnepp (1975–1978) | Christoph Zöpel (1978–1980) | Johannes Rau (1980, 1990–1995) | Dieter Haak (1980–1983) | Günther Einert (1983–1990) | Manfred Dammeyer (1995–1998) | Detlev Samland (2000-2001) | Hannelore Kraft (2001-2004) | Wolfram Kuschke (2004–2005) | Michael Breuer (2005–2007) | Andreas Krautscheid (2007–2010) | Angelica Schwall-Düren (2010–2015) | Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense (2015–2017) | Stephan Holthoff-Porter (2017–)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thunder, Inge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schnepper, Inge (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 2002 |
| Place of death | Recklinghausen |